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Viper37 20-02-2009 02:49
Re: Apologizing for Blowout Match
 
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Originally Posted by smurfgirl (Post 806809)
is it more honorable to play to your fullest when you are clearly dominating a match, or should you back off at a point? If you are clearly losing a match by a great margin, would you prefer that your opponents to give their all or take it easy on you? Is it shameful to win a match by a huge margin?
FIRST Robotics Competition.

While the principle of GP plays a huge part in FIRST, at the end of the day this is still a competition. I personally find dishonor in not trying your hardest to win the game while following the rules and being a decent person.

I used to play Lacrosse, and once upon a time we played a team that was obviously not as good as we were. We ran the score up into the 30-0 range. It got so bad that myself and our other goalies were scoring goals.

Do I feel bad? Not one bit. Everyone out there was a sportsman, in fact I had a friend on the other team. When I asked him about it he told me "I'd rather have my butt handed to me, then a win I did not earn."

Kinda sums it up for me.

Elgin Clock 20-02-2009 10:27
Re: Apologizing for Blowout Match
 
Another High School sports GP story is in the headlines today:

http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=914609

Kind of refreshing to know that in the stereotypical world of sports, there exists some glint of humanity & GP among the highly competitive nature.

Molten 20-02-2009 11:45
Re: Apologizing for Blowout Match
 
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Originally Posted by Elgin Clock (Post 825365)
Another High School sports GP story is in the headlines today:

http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=914609

Kind of refreshing to know that in the stereotypical world of sports, there exists some glint of humanity & GP among the highly competitive nature.
Koko Ed beat you to it.:P

Elgin Clock 20-02-2009 11:51
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Originally Posted by Molten (Post 825439)
Koko Ed beat you to it.:P
Oops!
I didn't expect to see it posted on here yesterday since I just saw the headline today. HA!

Oh wells. It's a story that is worth repeating many times over none-the-less. :)

Andrew Schreiber 20-02-2009 22:29
Re: Apologizing for Blowout Match
 
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Originally Posted by Elgin Clock (Post 825442)
Oops!
I didn't expect to see it posted on here yesterday since I just saw the headline today. HA!

Oh wells. It's a story that is worth repeating many times over none-the-less. :)
I agree, this is a topic I wouldnt object so strongly to having duplicate posts. These things need to be showcased.


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